Leonov’s walk on … On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk.

They opened the EVA with a tribute to the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov, who celebrates his 85th birthday on Thursday. As per usual, Russian spacewalks are often less to do with ...

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for ... The noted and sad irony that the first person to walk in space died on the same day two NASA astronauts performed what is now a near “routine ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov died in Moscow at 85, his aide Natalya Filimonova told TASS on Friday. Leonov made two space flights that lasted a total of seven days ...

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman cosmonaut in 1963 and two years later another cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the first person to perform a space walk. The American space programme ...

On the first-ever spacewalk, during his first-ever trip to space, in 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ... Footage of the walk is available on YouTube. Leonov returned to space once, a ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...